Posted on 09/10/2018 7:26:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed the Trump administration after it threw a $1 billion casino project into doubt by ruling the federal government could not take land into trust for a Massachusetts tribe, an issue she has championed as she fights criticism over her disputed claims of Cherokee ancestry.
The Massachusetts Democrat vowed to move forward with legislation after the Bureau of Indian Affairs admitted defeat Friday in its two-year search for a legal avenue to take 320 acres into trust on behalf of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.
The Interior Department agreed in 2015 to hold land in trust for the tribe, a condition for building the tribal casino, but a year later U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young blocked the decision, ruling that the tribe was recognized about 73 years too late to qualify under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
“The decision by the Trump administration to move forward with denying the Mashpee Wampanoag a right to their ancestral homeland and to keep their reservation is an injustice,” Ms. Warren and Sen. Edward J. Markey, both Massachusetts Democrats, said in a statement....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Warren got up out of her chair and danced around her office desk in anger. It rained.
How?
I fell under the table)))
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.